The history behind Orkney's vote to ‘join Norway’
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A brief history of the Magic Wand
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Tango may be most closely associated with Argentina, but it also has a long tradition in Finland
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Hold the line - The short history of women switchboard operators
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What the hell happened to the California of the ’50s and ’60s?
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How one American mother’s love for her gay son started a revolution
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Cold War British RMP video shown to travellers before driving from West Germany to West Berlin through the Soviet East German corridor
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Why Lego won – the competition looked identical, so how did they pull it off?
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Sweden set up a eugenics plan, grounded in the science of racial biology, between 1934 and 1976 – between 20,000 and 33,000 Swedes were forced to be sterilised
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Inside the secret world of Russia's Cold War mapmakers
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How Iceland became a geothermal powerhouse
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The history of ecommerce: 1979 to 2023
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How the inventor of the troll doll missed out on a fortune
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The forgotten story of Modulex – Lego's lost cousin
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Much of what you've heard about Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan is wrong
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How Edvard Munch's friend Thomas Olsen hid the masterpiece 'Dance on the Beach' in a remote barn in the Norwegian forest to foil the Nazis
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The curious case of Nebraska Man
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How Gloria Steinem lent Wonder Woman a helping hand
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105 years ago, a savvy candy company created the most divisive holiday dish ever
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Chinese poetry of the detention barracks at Angel Island
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Military operations in East Ukraine (1919-1942)
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Stomping the margarine: Life when we had to color our food
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What happened to flying wings?
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Denmark opens Flugt refugee museum, recognizing the contribution refugees have made to the Nordic country
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How ‘This Way Out’ is preserving its collection of historic audio from the LGBTQ movement
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The book that sank on the Titanic and burned in the Blitz
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Were Alfred Hitchcock films film-noir?
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Gladys Bentley: Gender-bending performer and musician of the Harlem Renaissance (1920-30s)
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Why people thought steel houses were a good idea
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Why a tire company is the judge of fine dining
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How wine bricks saved the US wine industry during Prohibition
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Asta Nielsen, the Danish silent film star who taught Greta Garbo everything – discover her in a British Film Institute season dedicated to her extraordinary talent
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Native Americans: Portraits from a century ago
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More than just a 'mystery' train, the Orient Express whisked the elite across Europe in luxury and style
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America's forgotten vampire panic
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Much of what you've heard about Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan is wrong
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Sexist and offensive vintage ads that would never fly today, 1940-1980
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From the 1910s to the 1930s, John Alinder portrayed the local people of rural Sweden, the landscape around them and their way of life
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Restoring and skating in 100 year old figure skates
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The doomed mouse utopia that inspired the ‘Rats of NIMH’. Dr. John Bumpass Calhoun spent the ’60s and ’70s playing god to thousands of rodents.
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A century ago Ludwig Wittgenstein changed philosophy for ever
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Announcing Headstamp Publishing's new Kickstarter book | Pistols of the Warlords: Chinese domestic handguns, 1911 - 1949
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The filing cabinet was critical to the information infrastructure of the 20th-century. Like most infrastructure, it was usually overlooked.
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Facing a housing crunch almost a century ago, Stockholm built 'barnrikehus' for low-income families – today they are some of the city's more sought-after properties
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The final days and dissolution of Austria-Hungary
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How socialists solved the housing crisis of Vienna after WW1 and how we can do it again
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The rise and fall of white bread
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The battery invented 120 years before its time
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The lost history of socialism’s DIY computer
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MLB is finally recognizing the Negro Leagues as the Major Leagues they always were
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